From: "Jack Johnson" <knapjack@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Trouble starting Plan9 Installation and Live CD
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 18:19:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e35c0620707071819gdae8d7epb0f5046d6f0d3871@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecde52925defb09862e0eac2b492550b@coraid.com>
On 7/7/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:
> a better but more involved fix might be to switch to 16bit mode and call bios
> for floppy access. this is more complicated but could pave the way for 9load
> using universal drivers (part of the pxe standard) to load the kernel proper
> instead of modified versions of the cpu kernel drivers.
Thinking about how some of the other platforms handle it, and even
other OSes on x86, has anyone looked at trying to leverage a different
bootloader? Something like grub, maybe?
-Jack
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-08 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 17:17 Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-05 17:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-05 18:40 ` Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-08 0:47 ` Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-08 1:00 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-08 1:19 ` Jack Johnson [this message]
2007-07-08 1:31 ` Jack Johnson
2007-07-08 1:39 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-10 16:09 ` Paulo Pocinho
2007-07-08 1:43 ` erik quanstrom
2007-07-08 2:17 ` tlaronde
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